Throughout the movie there was tons of technology and gadgets. However, in this final room, i cant even find a light switch. A light bulb. Wall
outlet. Computer. Phone. Nothing. The only source of power i see is coming from the floor. But even then, i see no wall switches. Even in the
bathroom, there is nothing.

Wow I like how you pieced that all together. That's very interesting. Incredible symbolism that they always seem to use. Like it's crazy. Koobrick
also did Eyes Wide Shut, (not to mention the appolo moon landings) go figure. So obviously he had insider information from TPTB as to what was to
come, or at least what symbolizm to use.

The videophone is a staple of science fiction and has been in sci-fi movies for decades. A 1935 movie called The Tunnel featured it.

Plus, according to THIS wiki:

In early 1936 the world's first public video telephone service was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert and opened by the German Reichspost (Post Office)
between Berlin and Leipzig, utilizing broadband coaxial cable to cover the distance of approximately 100 miles (160 km). The system employed
mechanical television scanning and 8 inches (20 cm) square displays with a resolution of 180 lines operating at 25 frames per second.[35] Its opening
was inaugurated by the Minister of Posts Paul von Eltz-Rübenach in Berlin on March 1, 1936, who viewed and spoke with Leipzig's chief
burgomaster.[36][37] The same coaxial cables were also used to distribute television programming throughout Germany. In the initial service trial,
broadband coaxial cable lines initially linked Berlin to Leipzig.

After a period of experimentation the system entered public use and was soon extended 100 miles (160 km) from Berlin to Hamburg, and in July 1938 from
Leipzig to Nuremberg and Munich, eventually providing more than 620 miles (1,000 km) of transmission lines. The videophones were integrated within
large public telephone booths, with two booths provided per city. Calls between Berlin and Leipzig cost RM3½, approximately one sixth of a British
pound sterling, or about one-fifteenth of the average weekly wage.[35] The video telephone equipment in Berlin was designed and built by the German
Post Office Laboratory. Devices used in other German cities were developed by Fernseh-Aktiengesellschaft, which was partly owned by the Baird
Television Ltd of the U.K.,[35] inventors of the world's first working television. While the system's image quality was primitive by modern
standards, it was deemed impressive in contemporary reports of the era, with users able to clearly discern the hands on wristwatches.[35]

Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
The videophone is a staple of science fiction and has been in sci-fi movies for decades. A 1935 movie called The Tunnel featured it.
2001 was hardly the first to use the idea.

But 2001 was a great platform to get humans ready for the coming gadgets that now shape our whole society. Anyone who saw the movie was
"conditioned" and now look. We have everything seen in that movie today.

The movie is about evolution. And how a secret group helped humans evolve from monkeys to man - via the monolith. From the wilderness to space
stations.

Could the film itself be an evolutionary tool for humans? They predicted a lot of gadgets we have today, we went to the moon just like in the film,
plus they built a life size monolith across the street from the World Trade Center, home to the greatest conspiracy theory of all time.

And lets not forget they chose "2001" as the title year. Nice prediction there as well.

Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
The videophone is a staple of science fiction and has been in sci-fi movies for decades. A 1935 movie called The Tunnel featured it.
2001 was hardly the first to use the idea.

But [...]

No buts. Didn't Star Trek also "come up" with a million different things?
It goes both ways, TV-series / Movies using things that we all are expecting, and product developers go "hey, did you see the 'x' that went the
other night? We could definitely do it now with the help of 'y'".

No buts. Didn't Star Trek also "come up" with a million different things?
It goes both ways, TV-series / Movies using things that we all are expecting, and product developers go "hey, did you see the 'x' that went the
other night? We could definitely do it now with the help of 'y'".

(based on the idea that Bowman's space ship is in the shape of a sperm, he kills Hal 9000(technology), then the light show represents sex or
something of that nature )

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I always thought the light show represents him going through some sort of worm hole,,, or hullcinatorily experiencing a slow lonely death,,, in vast
space,, only in his little pod,,, I thought the final room represented limbo or a place of solitary reflection of the individual man who has gone
through a human life,,, at the end of being in the room,,, he finally gets it when he points to the monolith while in bed,,, even though he was an old
man,, and one of technological knowledge,, even though he lived a "long" life,,, he is but a baby in the mind and eyes of the universe,,, and so
after this,,, he is shown as a baby again,,, my guess is waiting to be reborn,,, to experience another side or aspect of infinity...

That's a good analysis. If you read the book itself, Starchild goes to Earth, first destroys all the orbiting nuclear weapons, and visits "his
mother" dying in a nursing home, so it's definitely Bowman in a new and pwerful guise. He seem to wonder at all he sees, suggesting he has already
been reborn.

That's a good analysis. If you read the book itself, Starchild goes to Earth, first destroys all the orbiting nuclear weapons, and visits "his mother"
dying in a nursing home, so it's definitely Bowman in a new and pwerful guise. He seem to wonder at all he sees, suggesting he has already been
reborn.

true,,, ive seen some or all of 2010: .... but thought it was crap,,,,, and remember there is stuff with the guy coming back ghost like etc,,.,.,.

i think this represents he became universally enlightened,,, and once he saw the earth and human nature from a higher perspective,,, came back to try
to right the wrongs of nuclear war etc.. .,.,,.
maybe the visiting mother is a homage to "ghost" or "spritual" things,, like how people claim their dead relatives comfort them, and they can sense
them,.,.,. damn i wish I could talk with arthur c clarke and stanley kubrick about this

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